Events 2005
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World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures
- Dates: October 1st-2nd 2005
- Location: Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London, E14 7HA
- Link: http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/
- Description: This event will bring together individuals and groups from across the world working on projects such as free wireless networking, free of copyright mapping and open hardware. It is also part of a larger season of events based around alternative approaches to knowledge production and access and timed to coincide with the UK's hosting of a pan-European Creative Economy conference.
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APLAWS user group meeting
- Date: 7th October, 2005
- Location: The Guildhall, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ
- Link: http://www.aplaws.org.uk/support/usergroup.php
- Description: The broad topics to be covered are: ODPM updates, joint procurement proposals, the APLAWS new release (TBC), and experience sharing
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Software Freedom Day
- Date: 10th September, 2005
- Location: Global. For the UK see link below.
- Link: http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/ See the wiki for the UK team list.
- Description: Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Over 200 teams are registered so far worldwide.
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Association for Free Software Annual Meeting
- Dates: Saturday 13th August 2005. 10:00am - 5:00pm
- Location: The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
- Link: http://www.affs.org.uk/affsac.html
- Description: Open to all - a day of free software talks and demos, including speakers from the FSF, Open Source Consortium, Debian-UK, Gentoo.
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Building Open Source Communities
- Dates: 4 July 2005
- Location: JMC Prestonfield Room, Pollock Halls of Residence, University of Edinburgh
- Link: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2005-07-04/
- Description: The 4th OSS Watch conference for Higher Education discusses:
What characterises an open source software development community? How does the licence choice affect the community that may arise? Why is the Moodle community growing so quickly? And other topics..
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FLOSSIE Conference
- Dates: Thursday 14th & Friday 15th July 2005
- Location: Bolton Technology Innovation Centre, Minerva Road, Bolton
- Link: [1]
- Description: This two day conference, organised by Schoolforge UK responds to the latest government report that shows how schools and colleges can greatly increase the returns from their IT budget by using Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).
The conference is aimed at both technical and financial decision makers who would like to discover what FLOSS can offer their establishments. Find out how some schools have stopped being 'locked in' to a single software supplier, whilst enabling their formerly hard-pressed ICT support staff to continuously expand the services provided.
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BCS Open Source Specialist Group
- Dates: March 14, 4-7pm
- Location: BCS London Offices
- Link: [2]
- Description: This is the inaugural meeting of the Group. You do not need to be a BCS member to attend, but must register.
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LAWS Users Group Meeting
- Dates: 8th March 2005
- Location: Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London
- Link: [3]
- Description: discussion of APLAWS+ and LGOL; current status, case studies, and road-maps for the future
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Open Source in the Public Sector
- Dates: 16 November 2004
- Location: London
- Link: [4]
- Description: One in a series of e-Government best practice conferences. The objective is to share best practice; case studies; improve understanding of potential benefits and drawbacks; and encourage public sector collaboration.
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Open Standards and Libre Software in Government
- Dates: 18 November 2004
- Location: Van Gogh Hall, Netherlands Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Link: [5]
- Description: Open standards and Libre Software are increasingly important to governments around the world, and Europe leads in their adoption and promotion. The most high-profile event of the European Information and Communications Technology calendar, the IST 2004 conference, takes place in The Hague from the 15th to the 17th of November. The conference "Open Standards and Libre Software in Government" is held immediately afterwards, at the same venue and in coordination with the Dutch Presidency of the European Union.
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UNCTAD Expert meeting on Free and Open Source Software: Policy and development implications
- Dates: 22â24 September 2004
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Link: [6]
